Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-25

III tue country.
The Rich Hill Coal Mining Company, of
Missouri, shipped So, 900 tons during No.
vember, and the total TOE IL months was
oOO,OOO tons; the output has grown since
the company came under general manage
ment Of Dir. Thomas Fleming.
The Welsh anthracite coal is being sold
az $3.50 per 1000 pounds at Galveston,
Texas, and several thousand tons are said
10 be already on their way to that port. 1t
Is said to burn TO a red ash and has all
the lasting, heating and.cleanly qualities''
OF the American hard coal.
Here is the situation st st. Louis: An
thraclte coal is IS cents a ton higher now
than last year and the demand is greater.
over 10000 more tons of anthracite have
been sold this year than were disposed OF
last year. Chestnut is very scarce and can
hardly be purchased al all.
Just fancy a pipe 20 feet long weighing
a ton, 81 inches in diameter, being made
out Of iron. 1t was Ions last week by the
National Tube Works Company at Nc
heespOCt, who have q very large order for
pipe Of that size. Machinery exclusively
II used in the handling OF the p)Rderous
tube.
lis an old and in many cases a true
saying that "a rolling stone gathers no
moss" But that only applies to indi-
Uduals who are shiftlesS and unsteady.
The ~Amalgamated Association ball Is gath.
ering moss at every turn. Keep it rolling
until GO more moss is LETT to gather in
Labor Tribune.
Cooperative glass works schemes are be-
ing discussed by members Of the American
tllnts, and IT prospects or u prolonged
strike shall appear, no doubt there will be
a number Of these come TO a head. Gas
localities offer inducements such as a few
years ago would have been snapped up.
We do not think the manufacturers will
20 so far as to bite off their noses to spite
their taces.-La6Or Tribune.
The name of the 800, 900 stock COM
pauy, previously reported AS to be formed
to operate a horse shoe factory, which will
be moved from Chicago, Ill to Decatur,
Ala is the Southern Horse Nail Company.
c. c. Harris, of Chicago, il president; F..
A. Butler, Chicago, yice-president; K. II.
Balliuger, Ksnkakee, Ill, secretary, and
W. w. Littlejohn, treasurer. They will
erect works al Observation-Disclosures Re
cord.
According to the Wellston, o., Argus
industries are to be established at that
| place as follows: Two modern blast fur
uaces Of $50 tons daily capacity; one steel
| plant, $50 tons capacity; one steel nail
plant, 1000 kegs capacity; one nail plate
| rolling mill, capacity $50 tons daily; one
wiIe nail mill plant, capacity 500 kegs
daily; one wire rolling mill, capacity to
supply the above wire nail mill; one stove
foundry, capacity 100 stoves daily; one
pipe foundry, 80 tons daily capacity; one
7 rail-, bar and guide mill.
Notwithstanding all the gloomy talk
about 3 falling Of in railroad construction
the string Of new enterprises Is increasing.
New roads are Projected in Illinois and In
| diana. and a road has been projected from
| Omaha to FL Paso, Texas, with a capital
| Of $40. OOO, 90. 4 new line has just been
completed connecting Memphis and Den
YER. A road il 10 be built from Montana
to Texas, opening up an entirely new re-
gion fer coal, lumber, wheat and cattle,
with a capital OF so, 900, 600. The ex-
| IRENE points will be Galveston, on the
Gulf coast, and Miles City, Montana.
Il hes been pointed ont that the reduc-
ton in the cost of fuel in the manufactO.
ries of P~ittsburg, since the advent OF
natural gas, has placed successful competi-
! tjon by CuiclgO manufacturers IN certain
| liusS Of business entirely Ont CT The qUe,-
zion II is necessary, IN order to restore
tine former trade equilibrium, that gas
! shall 20 back on PlttSburg, or Chicago shall
! iEd aud provide natural gas, or Its subSti-
tu.o ia fuel gas. This Substitute can he
made 50 a. to sell Tor 10 cents per 1000
feet. At that cost the equivalent to D ton
ct coal viii cost but g 40, and the cost OF
manufacturing many articles IN Chicago
could be greatly reduced. Some serious
attention will have to be given to the mat.
ter OF fuel gas soon, even if 1t IL for no
other purpose than TO break up the ring o!
robber coal barons.-SaRitGry NercS.
The A. A. of I. aud S. W. formally
affiliated with the American Federation OF
Labor or Tuesday Of last week, December
Is. at the annual convention OF the latte;
in the city of Baltimore, Md, and so long
AS the American Federation Of Labor does
as it did at its last sesSion-contine itself
to the elevation Of the labOrer by legltI'
mate and lawful means aud methods, the
strict autonomy OF its branches and thelE
riuht 10 handle their own affairs in their
own way, the rendering of assistance III
case of trouble in any trade connected
with it, both morally, financially, etc
the Amslgamated Association will stay
with it. 1t will eventually become the
grand trunk for the disseminating of trades
union principles throughout the United
States and Canada, aud il carefully guard
ed it caano: but succeed. Everybody Ia
attendance at the convention seemed to be
imbued with that idea and worked to that
end.-LG5Or Tribune.